Business and Government

• By: Ryan Radia
• 08/22/2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) respectfully submits these comments regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s forthcoming hearings to consider whether evolving business models in the new…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/17/2018

Our good friend Nick Gillespie interviews Peruvian economist and property rights activist Hernando de Soto about the future of prosperity in the developing world, and…

Business and Government

• 08/15/2018

Politico cited CEI’s platform economy video. CEI has a new video out today “extolling the benefits of the modern digital ‘platform…

Business and Government

• 08/15/2018

PJ Media cited CEI’s platform economy video. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has a great new video out explaining why the Platform Economy —…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 08/15/2018

It is taken as given that taxation and regulation affect business startups and job creation. However, the many metrics seeking to explain governmental policies' effects…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray, Ryan Young
• 08/13/2018

View Full Document as PDF With contributions by Fred L. Smith Jr., Marc Scribner, Daniel Press, and Ryan Khurana Profiles in Capitalism August…

Business and Government

• By: Marc Scribner
• 08/09/2018

Yesterday, the New York City Council voted to impose a one-year cap on the number of ride-hailing vehicles able to operate in the city.

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 08/07/2018

Social media outlets have been filled with commentary this week about the decisions by Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify to remove content created by…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/03/2018

Of all the consumer products one might have expected to become a flashpoint for political controversy, the humble plastic drinking straw is an unlikely contender.

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/01/2018

Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute launches its new video about the platform economy. Platforms are an ancient way of doing business—think of matchmakers, city fairs,…

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/30/2018

It is taken as given that taxation and regulation affect business startups and job creation. However the many metrics seeking to explain governmental policies' effects on entrepreneurship probably…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/27/2018

The changing nature of work via the sharing economy, automation and networking is one among a profusion of variables (such as economic liberty) affecting modern…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 07/27/2018

The European Union recently announced it would fine Google $5 billion for alleged anti-competitive practices in the licensing of its Android smartphone operating system. There…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/27/2018

When I was in Atlanta last month for the Foundation for Economic Education’s annual conference, FEEcon, I heard a lot of messages of…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 07/27/2018

As my colleague Ryan Young says, four percent economic growth is wonderful news. It provides yet more evidence that free-market, supply-side policies work, and…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/18/2018

Dominance and popularity are not the same as a coercive monopoly. The European Commission is behaving in protectionist fashion, not in a manner benefitting consumers,…

Antitrust

• John Berlau
• 07/17/2018

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will likely pass by a substantial margin a legislative package — backed by both House Financial Services Committee Chairman…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Radia
• 07/17/2018

T-Mobile and Sprint—the third and fourth largest mobile carriers in the United States, respectively—are in the process of merging into a single company…

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/11/2018

Regulation is one of the more important influences on entrepreneurship around the world, and modern scholars have explored what the see as key conceptual and…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/08/2018

Every time a major corporate merger is announced, pundits predictably warn of impending doom if regulators allow it to happen. Yet, pundits and regulators don’t know any…

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/02/2018

We know that “Institutions Matter” when it comes to governance and prosperity. They have to, because the phrase returns over 200,000 Google search results.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/29/2018

Thanks to everyone who made last night’s annual dinner and reception a great success. Our headliners Mick Mulvaney, Jonah Goldberg, and…

Business and Government

• 06/28/2018

We understand that the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on June 27…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/26/2018

We’ve come to one of the most exciting times of the year—the week of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner and Reception. This year’s event,…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Iain Murray
• 06/25/2018

Can the federal government shrink? Or is the situation like the waistlines that paradoxically parallel the growth of the diet and fitness industry?…

Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 06/22/2018

Associate director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Jessica Melugin, discusses the Supreme Court’s disappointing…

Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 06/22/2018

Thursday’s Supreme Court decision has changed how states can tax online shopping. In South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., the court upheld a state law that…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/22/2018

The question of the minimum wage is a hot topic this week, as the voters of the District of Columbia just approved Initiative 77, …

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/18/2018

Thanks to the great Nick Gillespie of Reason for Friday’s exciting announcement that the Competitive Enterprise Institute short film “I, Whiskey: The Human…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/15/2018

Last week I was in Atlanta enjoying the excitement and intellectual ferment of FEEcon, the annual conference held by the Foundation for Economic Education.

Business and Government

• By: Myron Ebell
• 06/14/2018

The Daily Caller cited Myron Ebell on the professional successes of Mary Neumayr as head of the White House council leading policy coordination on energy…

Business and Government

• By: Sam Kazman
• 06/13/2018

Townhall cited Sam Kazman on the contribution to casualty rates stemming from automobile related accidents that CAFÉ rules propagate. Even with side air…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 06/13/2018

Saudi Gazette cited Clyde Wayne Crews on the inadequacy of government for responding to growing competition against traditional media outlets, which has been exacerbated by…

Antitrust

• Frank Bednarz, Ryan Radia
• 06/12/2018

Today, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon approved the AT&T-Time Warner merger. Judge Leon rejected the Justice Department’s argument in its antitrust lawsuit aimed at blocking…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/12/2018

Every summer there are news stories about local authorities shutting down children’s lemonade stands over lack of licenses, permits, a lack of restaurant-grade kitchen or…

Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 06/12/2018

For almost 20 years, state and local politicians have lobbied Congress for permission to reach across their borders and collect sales taxes from online businesses…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 06/11/2018

President Donald Trump's moves to streamline federal regulation and unleash infrastructure have in some ways been unprecedented. But some developments could undermine or swamp the…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/09/2018

President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum against allies like Canada, Mexico and the European Union are only the latest skirmish in a long-term attack…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/08/2018

I’m attending FEEcon, the annual conference held by the Foundation for Economic Education, this week, and there’s an overwhelming number of great speakers…

Business and Government

• 06/06/2018

Coalition to Congress: Farm Bill Must Address Out-of-Control Subsidy Programs…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Radia
• 06/01/2018

France24 cited Ryan Radia on the market conditions created by GDPR.      Ryan Radia of the Competitive Enterprise Institute said that although GDPR…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Radia
• 06/01/2018

The Daily Caller cited Ryan Radia on the impact of GDPR in enabling favorable market conditions to the dismay of small businesses.      “The…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/18/2018

When putting together a chapter on entrepreneurship and regulation for the Fraser Institute’s new book “Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the Effects of an Aging…

Business and Government

• By: Christine Hall
• 05/17/2018

Today, the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank, released a new book on worldwide barriers to entrepreneurship, Demographics and Entrepreneurship:  Mitigating the…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/16/2018

The Hill cited Clyde Wayne Crews on the annual cost which federal regulations impose on Americans, the cost of which amounts to ten percent of our…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/09/2018

The future has arrived, and it is a radically different economy. Havas Media’s Tom Goodwin pointed out in 2015, “Uber, the world’s largest taxi…

Antitrust

• Daniel Press
• 05/08/2018

Today, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to stop a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule aimed at curtailing certain auto loan practices.

Business and Government

• 05/03/2018

The American Spectator cited the Competitive Enterprise Institute about federal overregulation in not only the immense financial burden however also includes the plethora of rules…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/27/2018

Governments can censor. And in a convoluted way, that's what social media regulation would do.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/13/2018

I’ve been interested over the last several years to see Dave Rubin’s metamorphosis from stand-up comedian to podcast co-host to serious public affairs…

Business and Government

• By: Scooter Schaefer
• 04/11/2018

One of the most glaring moments of hypocrisy during yesterday's Facebook hearing came from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) telling Zuckerberg that he felt “betrayed”…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 04/10/2018

John Berlau, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joined American Public Media’s Marketplace, to discuss how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can be…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Richard Morrison
• 04/09/2018

Much of the political class in Washington, D.C. is currently holding its breath for the big event of the week: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s long-awaited…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/02/2018

We truly do live in amazing times. And according to Michael Munger, who directs Duke University’s multidisciplinary PPE program (it stands for Philosophy, Politics, and…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/30/2018

For several years now, HumanProgress has been an excellent source of data and scholarship on major demographic trends around the word. As longtime fans know,…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/27/2018

For a lot of small businesses in America, taxes are not just an expensive hassle but a scary, anxiety-inducing ordeal. Taxes are the…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Khurana
• 03/26/2018

Anti-technology hysteria continues to build in the European Union. Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, confirmed today that she is still considering breaking…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/23/2018

Human Achievement Hour is the Competitive Enterprise’s Institute’s annual celebration of innovation and progress. During this hour, people around the world pay tribute to the advancements that inventors…

Business and Government

• By: Pierre Desrochers
• 03/22/2018

Through his publications and scholarly work in the 1980s and 90s, the economist Julian Simon challenged the conventional wisdom and the intellectual position of the…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Tren
• 03/21/2018

It is enormously gratifying that this year’s winner of the Julian Simon Award is Hernando de Soto, whose work around the world to define,…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Khurana
• 03/20/2018

Automation has become somewhat of a dirty word recently. Fear of mass unemployment and widening inequality has led to calls for greater regulations of technology…

Antitrust

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 03/19/2018

Environmental activists want you to “take action for our planet and nature” by sitting in the dark for an hour on March 24th. But…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/16/2018

Congratulations are in order to our friends at Students for Liberty and their CEO Wolf von Laer on a successfully annual conference recently held here…

Business and Government

• 03/15/2018

View Full Document as PDF To Members of Congress: We the undersigned free market organizations, representing millions of hardworking Americans, urge you…

Business and Government

• By: Kent Lassman
• 03/15/2018

Several years ago CEI launched Human Achievement Hour, an annual celebration of innovation and progress. During this hour—this year, Saturday, March 24th from 8:30pm to…

Business and Government

• By: Nur Baysal
• 03/14/2018

Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook, has a new book out with a dramatic suggestion for changing the distribution of wealth in the United States.

Business and Government

• 03/12/2018

View Full Document as PDF Dear Members of Congress: On behalf of our organizations and the millions of American taxpayers we represent,…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/09/2018

Being able to make voluntary transactions with others while having redress in the case of fraud sets the stage for larger, more complex, and longer-term market…

Business and Government

• Iain Murray
• 03/09/2018

CEI expert examines February's jobs numbers and cautions that the administration's trade policies have the potential to undo the positive growth:…

Business and Government

• By: Harper Lanier
• 03/08/2018

A Pew study noted that Republicans’ views on free trade shifted in a more negative way during the 2016 presidential campaign, while Democrats’ views…

Business and Government

• 03/08/2018

View Full Document as PDF Dear Representative, On behalf of the undersigned organizations and our millions of members from across the country,…

Business and Government

• 03/08/2018

McClatchy cited the Competitive Enterprise Institute and its litigation efforts in response to infringement on the organization’s free-speech rights as well as peititioning against cities…

Business and Government

• By: Nur Baysal
• 03/07/2018

Blockchain has been hitting the headlines recently. Once regarded as a niche interest for technologically experienced libertarians and other computer nerds, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are…

Business and Government

• By: Nur Baysal
• 03/05/2018

If we want Millennials to have a greater appreciation for the virtues of capitalism, we need to convey how their entrepreneurial aspirations can only be made possible…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/02/2018

A recent TED Talk by Anna Rosling Rönnlund features images collected by photographers dispatched to 264 different homes in 50 countries around the world. They document the stoves, bed,…

Business and Government

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/23/2018

The Washingotn Times quoted Chris Horner on the cache of emails obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute through use of open records requests which shows…

Business and Government

• 02/22/2018

View Full Document as PDF Dear President Trump, On behalf of the following organizations, we urge you not to impose tariffs or…

Business and Government

• 02/21/2018

View Full Document as PDF Dear Senators and Representatives, On behalf of the undersigned organizations and our millions of members across the…

Business and Government

• By: Frank Bednarz, Ted Frank
• 02/16/2018

Variety quoted Ted Frank and Frank Bednarz on the impact that fear of large business firms has on the Department of Justice and the results…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Radia
• 02/09/2018

The New York Times cited Ryan Radia on lack of impact which the AT&T-Time Warner merger would pose to any distinct market. The…

Antitrust

• By: Frank Bednarz
• 02/08/2018

Investor’s Business Daily quoted Frank Bednarz on emerging sentiments held by lawyers recently emerging from Law School which consider the centralization of industrialization to be…

Antitrust

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/08/2018

Forbes cited Michelle Minton on the history of Pennsylvania Representative Charlie Dent and others to pass an amendment illegalizing state-based internet gambling within the state…

Business and Government

• 02/07/2018

View Full Document as PDF Dear Congressman Roskam, On behalf of millions of taxpayers across America, we write to endorse the Preventing…

Business and Government

• 02/07/2018

Bloomberg Politics covers CEI’s letter to the SEC urging an investigation of potential bond fraud by local governments in California. California officials are downplaying…

Business and Government

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/05/2018

Few events unite our diverse country and bring people together like sports. No matter where we are from, which team we root for, or even…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Radia
• 02/02/2018

CNN cited Ryan Radia on the lack of impact a merger between the merger of AT&T-Time Warner and the merger being a vertical transaction which…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/02/2018

In honor of the classic Bill Murray film “Groundhog Day,” Reason TV has released a “horrifyingly relevant” parody video about the seemingly endless national…

Business and Government

• By: Devin Watkins, Sam Kazman
• 02/02/2018

The Daily Caller covers CEI’s letter to the Securities Exchange Commision (SEC) notifying them of potential municipal bond fraud. A libertarian think tank has…

Business and Government

• By: Harper Lanier
• 01/31/2018

The enmity that many young Americans hold towards capitalism can be attributed to ideological and partisan predispositions, personal experiences during the Great Recession, the ensuing…

Business and Government

• 01/31/2018

Business Management Daily cited the Competitive Enterprise Institute and its role to overturn the Browning-Ferris act in order to clarify what constitutes that a “joint employer” must have…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 01/30/2018

Cutting red tape, so talented individuals can thrive, will help put the long-term roar back into the economy.

Business and Government

• 01/30/2018

InsideSources covers deregulation under the Trump administration. President Donald Trump was credited by a major franchise association Monday with the sector expecting to outperform…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/29/2018

Laws about competition should be restricted to laws preventing government from playing favorites. Government-erected barriers against competition or innovation need to be torn down. As…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/26/2018

I was mystified to see Robert VerBruggen’s story in the latest issue calling for “gentle approaches” to solving what he regards as a monopoly…

Antitrust

• By: Michelle Minton
• 01/26/2018

Las Vegas Review-Journal quotes Michelle Minton the impact on consumer freedom which a federal sports gambling known as PASPA poses. When the U.S.

Business and Government